I'm an emotional wreck today due to them. Will ring doctors to make appointmnet tomorrow. Have noticed before that the emotional stuff turns up again a few months after I stop provera - clearly need a regular hormone boost,just need to find something that suits me better.

Do that! Hopefully they can sort something...

Isn't it funny how different our bodies are - high progesterone triggers my SVT

What is SVT?

I think mine in almost zero so when I'm on artificial progesterone it isn't that high still

Superventricular Tachycardia - my heart skips a beat and then races flat out, if my progesterone is high (like during pregnancy or certain times of the month I have been known to have tonic clonic seizures

How are you feeling today?

a lot better thanks. have appt for Tuesday. It is crap when you feel like you are held hostage by a malfunctioning body.

Hi Wuz sounds like you've been through the wringer, you poor thing


Liljay I have heard of hormones having an effect if you are seizure prone, but not the heart issue.
Do you have regular blood tests?

CaMom how are you?

Things were all going good with the weekly Diflucan & Micreme H, but finished the Micreme, and what do you know all the itching, burning started up again.
Went to see if I could buy some more Micreme H over the counter but as I've already been using it for 4 weeks in a sensitive area & due to the Hydrocortisone in it they wouldn't let me.
Called my GP's nurse to see if he would prescribe more, otherwise back to the Gynae I go.

Linzi that is awful! I hope you can find something to help with that. I'm so prone to it but been fine for ages now - it is def hormone related for me.

You know, I'm thinking that I am lucky I had kids when I did as I reckon it would be somewhat problematic if I were trying now.

Agh the itch! Drives me insane sometimes!!!

Wuz, got diagnosed with Epilepsy when I had DD but they've withdrawn that now they've found the arrythmia... Permanently on beta blockers now and on a very long waiting list for an echocardiogram. Beta blockers are doing a great job!

I have to go to doc next week for more blockers so am going to check out hormone levels if I can...

Despite blood tests which came back OK for hormone levels I know for a fact that my worst symptoms are in the first week of every month, so somethings going on.
If I do manage to get it under control its at the most 3 weeks, but certain things can trigger it off, which if I don't treat it fast turns into thrush.
Heat, sweat, swimming pools(chlorine) and the obvious

So would that be more of an estrogen thing then? My issues are certainly progesterone - all come about at ovulation when progesterone is menat to start increasing but that doesn't seem to be happening for me.

Hi gals..sorry to gatecrash but as I get bad PMT off an on I thought I would qualify to say something. I know PMT and Menopause are not the same but both hormonal and difficult.

I have been using 30plus and it has been great for me. Especially the agression (feeling I could just smack someone over)the grumpyness and feeling very emotional and sorting out my argumentative streak pre and during my period. Some mornings I just couldn't face getting out of bed and I felt very very tired. But this really works for me. I don't take it right through the month but 1 week before and during my period and that seems to be all I need to take. I also take Executive B and B5 every day. These two things that have worked.

My Mum suffered with bad PMT all her life (we all suffered actually) and also had real problems with menopause. She took HRT which worked well for her but then switched to Remifemin which was also very good she said and you can get it over the counter at the pharmacy. A natural alternative to HRT. You all need to give it a go.

I guess if I follow in her footsteps I will probabaly have a bad menopause like she did.

Bothe those I have heard of before Louise, will look into them again. Thanks

Great GP consult today - course of action is 30 plus and vitB complex (have gone with a good multi instead though) and see how that goes. We are thinking that along with further weight loss might be the ticket. Heaps of my symptoms have reduced from weight loss already so I'm living in hope that it will continue to help - GP pretty certain it will.

Speaking with a friend on the weekend, she has similar stuff going on and was advised to start 30plus too

Glad you have a good result... wondering now whether there is something called 40+

I am in surgical menopause (age 38) and I cannot have any HRT.
I have been taking black cohosh for the past month or so and I haven't had a migraine since.
Usually I get migraines when my oestrogen is low and was averaging one every 2 weeks since my surgery.
My hot flushes have decreased in the last month too.

so this can be something to consider for pmt/menopause symptoms, of course run it by your gp first.

30 Plus has black cohosh in it. Liljay, probably worth trying even if you are in your 40s

Have been taking Remifemin for a month now.
I feel a bit more level headed and have been sleeping somewhat better at night

Pleased to hear it Linzi32 !

I thought I would share a new tid-bit re sage

A friend told me she had managed to relieve her hot flushes by eating one fresh sage leaf a day. I did a little research and discovered it has a weak oestrogenic affect.

www.livestrong.com/article/110176-benefits-herb-sage/

"For Women
Menopausal women may find some relief from drinking sage tea as Balch indicates sage as having an "estrogenic effect" on the body. Sage may help women with hot flashes and other symptoms of an estrogen deficiency. Balch recommends drinking sage tea to women who have had a hysterectomy." Quote


Hot flushes per se have not been too much of a problem for me (I've had 3) It is more the periodic night sweats and general over heating that I find distressing.

And we STILL haven't answered the question - How long do symptoms last ?

All of us here are peri-menopausal, or transitioning through menopause, but are not yet post-menopausal so.....

how long do they last?
I think they can last years and years, like 10 years (?) but that is at the worst.

If you had very high estrogen at the start of menopause, then your menopause will be longer, than someone that already had quite low levels of estrogen.

lol @ myself, I had answered 10 years???? in the 2nd post of this thread, ages ago!